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Grid Poet — 26 March 2026, 11:00
Wind and solar together produce 57.4 GW, driving 15.9 GW of net exports and depressing prices to 13.7 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 on a late-March morning, the German grid is generating 79.4 GW against 63.5 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 15.9 GW. Renewables account for 78.7% of generation, driven by a strong combined wind output of 31.1 GW and a notable 26.3 GW of solar despite 92% cloud cover — diffuse irradiance at this time of year on overcast skies is evidently sufficient to sustain substantial PV output. Conventional thermal plants remain online at moderate levels, with brown coal at 7.6 GW, hard coal at 5.6 GW, and gas at 3.6 GW, reflecting must-run obligations and limited downward flexibility rather than any scarcity signal. The day-ahead price of 13.7 EUR/MWh is consistent with this oversupply, sitting well below average and incentivizing exports and storage uptake.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines roar across a grey-lit land where surplus power spills beyond the borders' hand. Coal smolders on in stubborn thermal pride, while cheap electrons flood the continental tide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 33%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 10%
79%
Renewable share
31.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.3 GW
Solar
79.4 GW
Total generation
+15.9 GW
Net export
13.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.4°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 129.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
154
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.8 GW dominates the right half of the panorama as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of offshore turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon; solar 26.3 GW fills the center-right foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels under diffuse grey daylight, their surfaces reflecting the pale overcast sky; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left portion as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the heavy cloud layer; hard coal 5.6 GW sits left-center as a traditional coal plant with tall chimneys and conveyor belt infrastructure, thin grey smoke trailing; natural gas 3.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and clean white plume near the left-center; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded storage silo and short chimney emitting faint vapour, nestled among bare early-spring trees just left of center; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a stream in the lower foreground. The sky is 92% overcast — a thick blanket of stratus cloud in tones of pewter and soft grey, with faint diffuse brightness where the midday sun tries to penetrate but never breaks through, casting flat shadowless daylight across the entire scene. The landscape is early spring in central Germany: bare deciduous trees with the faintest haze of budding green, brown-green dormant fields, patches of last frost. The air feels calm and mild at 5°C despite brisk wind shown by bending grasses and spinning rotors. The low electricity price is reflected in an open, expansive sky with no oppressive weight — the overcast is high and even, not threatening. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, luminous treatment of the cloud layer — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, and industrial stack. The composition feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork panorama of the modern German energy landscape. No text, no labels, no human figures.
Grid data: 26 March 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-26T10:20 UTC · Download image